Sunday, February 21, 2016

Whistle While You Cleanse!

Syriosis…The Cleansing:Air
strikes and fear drive thousands south from Daraa towards Jordan. “Humanitarian
officials warn of fresh crisis amid reports of 70,000 people on the move
towards Syria's closed southwestern border.” A similar wave of refugees
is also gathering in the North
along the borders with Turkey. The attackers at this stage include:
Russians, Iranians, Hezbollah, Shia militias from Iraq, Afghanistan and
elsewhere, pro-regime Alawites militias, and Kurdish fighters affiliated with
the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian branch of the PKK. The scorched
earth policy followed by this lot ensures that the refugees, the overwhelming
majority of whom Sunni Muslims have no place to return to even when and should
the fighting ever stop.

Lest
they be accidentally cleansed!U.S.
quietly tells Russia where American troops are located inside Syria. “The
disclosure reveals an expanded level of military–to-military communication and
cooperation between the two countries beyond the basic “memorandum of
understanding,” or MOU, that was signed in October and focused on safety
protocols for air crews operating in Syrian air space.” This way both sides can
about their business in peace: the Russians with their ethnic cleaning
campaign, and the Americans with whatever the hell they think they are doing,
but aren’t.

Even the
liberation of IS stronghold in Shadadi seems inconsequential. After all the
liberators are Kurdish militias who, while working with Americans in the East and
Russians in the West, are pushing for the establishment of an independent
state, or at least an autonomous enclave for now, in parts of Syria rather than
a free Syria – a state that will not be hospitable to Arabs, even who already
live there, nor will it be democratic, or accommodating or other Kurds who are
not members of the PYD and true believers in its totalitarian ideology.

The
Smiling Caliph:ISIS
smiles big at Russia’s offensive in Syria. “While Moscow’s battle-plan
could succeed in the short term in handing military victories to Assad and
pro-Iranian groups, it is a recipe for a counterterrorism disaster in the long
run, and one that largely benefits ISIS.” This assessment, of course, goes against
the wisdom
promulgated by the Great Cock of Bullshitshire who wants us to believe that
Assad, the Iranians and the Russians are actually doing battle with ISIS, which
is supported by the Great Satan that is America. But, at this stage, spin has
become irrelevant. Those who see will not be deceived, while the willfully
blind will never see.

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About Ammar

Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian-American author and pro-democracy activist based in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is the founder of the Tharwa Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to democracy promotion. His personal website and entries from his older blogs can be accessed here.

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